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Did you know... that a pink
skin for Mercy in the video game Overwatch helped raise more than $12 million for breast cancer research?
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Here, I noticed the notability tag on the article, and maybe they'll be useful expanding the article besides. So here's all the stuff I could find on the character.
"Overwatch: a world fans built", IGN: Very small note on Pharmercy being "what might be Overwatch’s most prolific fan couple", plus a general talk on shipping and Overwatch.
"Overwatch fans' devotion to Witch Mercy is literally huge", Polygon: Reports on fan reaction again, this time to Mercy's Halloween skin. More specifically, someone made a 23040x12960 desktop wallpaper of her, maybe not worth mentioning.
"Overwatch review", PC Gamer: Part of a big review on Overwatch in general, relevant bits are praise for her movement ability and that she and Lucio remain distinct.
Plus some stuff already in the article. I'll leave it up to your judgement whether these are enough to pass
WP:GNG; I should note with a lot of the guide stuff that most of the Overwatch heroes got them, so not all sources are created equal there. –
The Millionth One (
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11:57, 2 July 2017 (UTC)reply
Stumbled upon
this article, a big love letter from Eurogamer to Mercy – "gaming's greatest healer". Also probably worth using. With it and a bit of time to reflect, I'm left fairly firm in the camp that Mercy is notable: that she has received coverage that is significant, and as a bonus that she'll in all likelihood continue to receive attention for the immediate future. Since the article's already been updated with a lot of the sources, I'll remove the notability tag in a bit if no one objects. –
The Millionth One (
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04:42, 20 July 2017 (UTC)reply
@
Soulbust: Hi. I've looked through the article, and I can't see anything that particularly holds it back. I would advise as a matter of course to archive all links where possible. Otherwise, I think I'd call this a Pass. --
ProtoDrake (
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10:51, 12 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Did you know nomination
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Substantial article, meeting of GA criteria implicates DYK pass. Article was nominated within seven days of passing GAR. QPQ has been completed. Image is properly licensed, appears in article, and show ups well enough at small size. Earwigs is pinging copyvio because the text of the article has been copy+pasted onto some spam site, but article looks fine from a compliance standpoint. I think the proposed hooks need some tweaking; "pink skin" in ALT0 needs to be rephrased or further elaborated, as this is not a term that is known to a general audience. "This thing is popular" in ALT1 is non-specific and not especially interesting, while ALT2 feels like it just barely scrapes
C6 as being fundamentally about the character's in-universe representation. If you're looking for additional hooks, one concerning a search for a Swiss-German actor resulting in the casting of a German-American actor might be interesting.
Morgan695 (
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04:52, 13 September 2022 (UTC)reply
@
Morgan695: Alrighty, I added the wikilink to skin on ALT0. I'll work on making ALT1 a little more interesting as I think the image would be nice to use on the DYK section.
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04:34, 19 September 2022 (UTC)reply